Browse by Artist: FOSS, LUKAS

Artist:	FOSS, LUKAS
Title:	Echoi
Label:	ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EMF 005CD

Performers include Foss (piano), Jan Williams (percussion), Douglas Davis (cello), and Edward Yadzinski (clarinet). "An assortment of (strangely enough) non-electronic chamber pieces from this noted American composer, head of the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, and conductor-in-chief of the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra. The CD presents three pieces, two of which ('Echoi' and 'Non-Improvisation') are for small ensemble and one ('The Fragments of Archilochos') for choral group with mandolin, guitar, and percussion backing. These recordings originally surfaced as a Wergo LP in 1969 (later re-issued on Heliodor) and represent the basis of Foss's experiments in 'controlled-improvisation' and 'cloudy-ambiance' that led up to the composition/performance/recording of such pieces as 'Paradigm' (Foss's classic entrance to DG's 70's 'Avant-Garde' series). These pieces link the tone-worlds of 60's 'academic' composition with later Zorn-related experiments quite well. Skilled." -- Hrvatski.

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